THE PRESIDENCY: In the War Zone

As President Roosevelt returned to
Washington on the Presidential yacht Potomac from a weekend on
Chesapeake Bay, two news dispatches told the U.S. how nearly two other
U.S. ships came to involvement in the war:

> Crew members of the
125-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole,
Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too
close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck.
While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations
of the big guns shook the General...